Claudius
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
Why the left has nowhere left to go
Chris Bayliss and Tom Jones discuss how progressivism got left behind
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
Saint Sánchez?
How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
Three pheasants, one Land Rover
Labour’s new war on pheasant shooting is about who gets to decide how England’s land is used
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal